A 23-year-old woman in Michigan will spend a year behind bars for fatally striking a 79-year-old man in a wheelchair while driving drunk and then fleeing the scene.
Washtenaw County Circuit Judge Carol Kuhnke sentenced Areli Beraza Vilchis to 365 days in jail in connection with the death of Robert Murray after Vilchis pleaded guilty to one count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated causing death and one count of failing to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in death, court records show.
Vilchis was driving east on East Huron Street just before midnight on May 5, the Ann Arbor Record reported. Murray was crossing East Huron in his wheelchair at the intersection of North Fourth Avenue when “the traffic signal changed” and Vilchis struck him with her car. Police said she then fled the scene before law enforcement arrived…